{"product_id":"9780062458728","title":"Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eStephenson, Neal\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWilliam Morrow Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e6\/2\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York Times Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Notable Book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining hard science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDigital Afterlife:\u003c\/b\u003e When Dodge’s consciousness is rebooted, he awakens in the Bitworld—an eternal existence where human souls are nothing more than data.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWorld Building Saga:\u003c\/b\u003e A new immortal world is born from the cloud, but this digital paradise soon reveals its own struggles between angels and demons, gods and followers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCryonics and Consciousness:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore the mind-bending technology that allows a human brain to be scanned, uploaded, and revived, effectively disrupting death itself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eExistential Questions:\u003c\/b\u003e This speculative epic tackles the profound philosophical and spiritual consequences that arise when humanity achieves digital immortality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"William Morrow Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46948550443263,"sku":"9780062458728","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780062458728_s600x595.jpg?v=1780334070","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780062458728","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}